DC's Acting US Attorney Michael Sherwin and Steven D’Antuono, FBI ass't director in charge of the Washington Field Office, are doing a briefing now on the status of the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection investigation. D'Antuono says public has sent in 200K digital media tips so far
They've arrested ~135 people and identified 400+ suspects. They're still looking for the person/people responsible for planting pipe bombs at the DNC/RNC buildings; there's a $75K reward
Sherwin says they've made good on the pledge to bump up charges from the initial misdemeanors many people were charged with at the start to more serious felony crimes
Sherwin says they will charge people with every level of crime, misdemeanors and felonies, and have gotten 500+ subpoenas/search warrants to date — "there's no manpower issue ... if a crime was committed, we are going to track that person down"
Sherwin says that as they continue to go through police body cams, expect to see more charges/cases involving assault on officers; also focusing on cases re: assault on the media
Sherwin says they will reach a "plateau" soon in the pace of criminal cases filed as the investigation gets more complex — as compared to the surge in the weeks after the Jan. 6 insurrection where social media made it easy to identify the first group of people charged
Sherwin says they're looking "closely" on building sedition cases — those charges carry 20-year max prison penalties — as well as investigating the deaths of Officer Sicknick and Ashli Babbitt
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